Quotes About Molehill

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

Scholars call this false equivalency. It means that when you find a mountain to expose in one person or party, you have to pick a molehill on the other side and make it into a mountain to avoid being accused of bias.

I was almost unimaginably vague, not because I was stupid, but because nothing really mattered to me. This is an enormous paradox, because everything mattered to me, far too much; I made a mountain out of every molehill, and that was my main problem... I might have seemed indifferent, but nothing could have been further from the truth and I knew it.

Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires, like those of the Orient, numbering six hundred million souls.